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ROME.

aed ag ttt fn tte an

THE ARCHURISHOP OF WESTMINSTER
ON THE INVASION OF ROME,
Pilate seetng that he prevailed nothing, but
that rather tamult was made, tukiug water
washed his hands before the peopte,
saying, “I am innocent.” (¢S. Matth.

xxvil, 24.)

Tus following is the peroration of
Archbishop Manning's address on the
‘Roman Invasion.’’ They who perused
the portion given in our last issue, will
be able to say whether or no the Roman
question be yet ended :—

“Tlere then ends one period of the
Roman question. But a far wider, dark-
er, and more lasting period is, I fear, be-
fore us. The year 1796 raised a ques-
tion which was not solved till Europe
had suffered for 20 years. The future
of the world is dark indeed. The blood
already shed between two great nations
may be little compared with the stream
which will flow if these principles gain
ahead. No washing of hands before
the people will cleanse any man, be he
preacher or demagogue, prince or states-
man, who shall teach men this Gospel
of Anarchy,

8. Paul has foretold the coming of one
whom he calls ‘the lawless.’’ No word
more truly describes the state of the
modern world, All ages have, indeed,
been lawless in the sense of violence
which breaks the law. But the modera
world is lawless in that it rejects the
idea of law, and destroys the basis of
law by resolving all authority into the
will of numbers, The idea of right as
limiting popular aspirations is extinct.
Facts are taken to be just because ac-
complished, as if robbery could become

lawlulby completion. The logic of facts
ts the porter uf we wihieh.oneo ha
gun, necessitate each other, And the

Tos Asvect or Rome, —Our Roman

;and social aspect of Rome, and what
would meet the eyes of the Pope if he
crossed the bridge of 8S. Angelo: —'The
vilest caricatures of his august person
and dignity are to be seen in every print |
and photograph shop. The most in-
famous books -are sold at every strect
corner. Taunts of infamy, licensed and |
registered, are being installed in the
public squares, and abandoned women
are, to-day, for the first time in Rome,
allowed to ply their trade in the public
streets. In the Colisseam the Pied-
montese cavalry is stabled—the horses
ave literally eating their forage on the
little altars of the Via Crucis, which the
faithful know and love so well, The cus-
tode was, he said, almost rejoiced that
the horses were there, as they were, at
least, inoffensive, compared to the Ro-
man rabble who had oceupied the Flavian
Amphitheatre, the day before, and who

against Christ and HisVicar, Theschools
are being submitted to secular jurisdic-
tion, the seminaries are in many cases
closing, the convents of active nuns are
discussing the question of their dispers-
al, as they can no longer go about the
streets without insult, and the order is
now published on all the walls that no
religious body: can legally sell or mort-
gage its own property—Leing the first
step to confiscation, Unfrocked friars,
suspended priests and pedlars are sell-
inv banefiul books, vile pamphlets on
the confessional, tracts, and the spurious
versions of the Bible are to be reen
in many of the streets, and a staring
placard on the walls avmounces a trans-
lation of Lothair! It is probable that
Pius 1X.will leave lis prison only to find
himself in the midst of all this sink of
impurity and blasphemy. Can there be
reroncilintion between the Revolution
and the Church on such a basis as this?

logic of facts is one of the supreme rea-
sons of state, The popular will may
aspire after its neighbour's house and

oods, all right and justice notwithstand-
ane for the popular will is a law to it-
self, and makes law by its aspirations.
What it desires it wills, and what it
wills is right. Whatis this but the
reign of license, the corruption of liber-
ty, the extinction of morality, the nega-
tion of justice—which is the negation of
God!
the modern world for the even law ol
nations and of God, which, at least by
public recognition, ruled and sustained
Christendom.

And with this lawlessness comes the
supremacy of might; once right and

: Pe i
might met together, sanctioning and

confirming each other's acts, Now,
might without right tramples down
right without might The weaker per-
ish and the stronger reign, till, by mu-
tual destruction, men and nations ex-
ccute on cach other the just judgment
of God, That this is in store for Europe
if these principles prevail, who can
doubt? That this will be the solution
of the Roman question, if this sacrilege

be not repaired, is sure as to-morrow’s |

sun,

The future of the Church may now be
cloudy, but in the evening there shall
be light. The Church may have to suf-
fer, and in all probability it will, but all
the more surely it will do its work.
There is, to-day, a kindling of indigua-
tien throughout the Catholic world
wheresoever the tidings of this great
wrong have spread; and where the in-
dignation is, reaction will follow, and
the nations of the Christian world will
pronounce whether they consent to the
spoliation of Christendom to gratify the
aspirations of a Revolution. If there be
yet life in the Christian world, the tem-
poral power of its Headis not dissolved.
If it be dissolved, then it will be known
that there is no public religious life left
in nations and states which o.ce were
Christian. Butthe undying Charch will
still remain—the living among the dead,
Be then of good courage. To-day, in
10,000 homes, andin 10,000 sanctuaries,
millions of hearts are lifted up in prayer.
through the intercession of the Mother
of God to Her Divine Son. You will,
o-day, adore His Divine presence in the
most Iloly Sacrament, and pray to Him
that He may put forth Ilis power upon
earth and still reign. Keep yourselves
innocent of this great offence, Protest
not only before Him but before men, that
you abhor this sin and sacrilege. Do
not sbare, even by silence, with those
who consent in this deed, Speak out
boldly and plainly, that all men may
know your fidelity, and fear not. No
man has laid hand upon the Vicar of
Christ and prospered. For atime they
may seem to be in great power, and to
flourish as a green bay tree, but in a
little they will be gone and their place
shall know them no more.

So it has been from the beginning.
The Emperors of heathen Rome laid
hands upon the Pontiffs and “bn
The Greeks of Constantinople, Barbarian
hordes, Lambards of the Norch of Italy,
Normans of the South, Counts of the
Marches, nobles of Rome, Emperors of
Germany, Emperors of France, | mean
the First Napoleon, for of the Third, in
profound compassion, I say nothing.
All those strove with the Pontiffs and
have passed away. Now, last of all,
Italy Jays its hand upon the Vicar of
Jesus Christ, and they who wish well to
Italy are full of fear in its behalf, for he
whom it has dethroned is the Vicar of

One who shall judge the world,”

And yet such is the substitute in|

Is this the Utopia of Liberal Catholi-
cisin (7?

On Wednesday jdast, between 4,000
and 5,000 of the chief Catholics of Bel-
gium met at Malines, and after sending
expressions of sympathy and religious
alliance with the Catholics assembled at
Fulda, they signed and published the

had made the air ring with blasphemies

The following is the form of the Pro-

correspondent writing a day or two aft-| test issued for signature in England:—
/er the occupation, describes the religious

“We, the undersigned Catholics of
Great Britain, have witnessed with grief
and indignation the invasion ofthe States
of the Church, and the assault and cap-
ture of Rome, by the army of King Vic-
tor Emmanuel,

“We hold that to witness these events
in silence would be to econnive at a blow

‘to those first instincts of honor and jus-

tice, without which security and freedom
are impossible, whether for States or in-
dividuals.

“We protest against these acts, in
the interests of public order, of morality,
and of religion:

‘We invite all good citizens to join
us in condemning this great crime
against the Law of Nations.

‘We invite all honest men to join us
in condemning this unjustifiable spolia-
tion,

“We invite all faithful Catholics to
join us in condemning this Act of Sacri-
lege.”

A Catholic Congress is to be held
shortly at Geneva, composed of repre-
sentative Catholies from all the nations
of Europe. Its object is to devise mea-
sures for the restoration of the Sovereign
Pontiff to his rights and to perfect liber-
ty, and to organize such a movement
throughout Christendom as shall, by de-
grees, compel the pradence of Govern-
ments to secure the inviolable liberty of,
the Head of the Church,

THE POPE'S PROTEST,
The following protest, in Latin, has
been addressed by the Pope, to each
‘Cardinal, and was distributed tn the
| eheoe hundricd vestries cof Rome:

"plus IX., POPE.

‘Beloved Son, Salutation and Apos-
tolic Benediction; Our Lord Jesus Christ,
who humbles and elevates, mortifies and
vivifies (Ist Kings, chapter 2, verse 6),
scourges and saves (Tobias, chapter 13,
verse 2), has recently permitted that
this city of Rome, the scat of the Su-

hands, as well as the remaining portion
of the Pontificial state which the enemies

following Protest :—
*¢Mosr Hoty Fararrn,—

The first thoneht of the Belgian Cath-
olics assembled at Malines, under the
presidency of their Bishops, is to address
‘to the Head of the Church, their beloved
Father, a testimony of their respect, of
their inviolable fidelity, and ef their filial
affection, Despoiled of his throne, a
captive in the Vatican, persecuted by
the Revolution, Pius IX. is now dearer
to us than ever, and misfortune only
tends to attach us more firmly to his
cause. Prostrated humbly, Most Holy
Father, at the foot of the Apostolic
Chair, from. whence descend upon the
jworld infallible teachings and paternal
benedictions which strengthen our hearts
we acknowledge in the Vicar of Jesus
Christ the plenitude of those rights
which come from God Himself, and the
free exercise which of Providence guar-
anteed to him by that Temporal Power
which an unprecedented outrage has
just robbed him of. Inthe face of our
country, and of the whole world, we de-
nounce this outrage committed by the
invasion of Rome aud of those provinces
which had remained subject to the ILoly
See, By the law of nations it is a usnr-
pation; for it is the violent confiscation
of aneutral State, and of the most legi-
timate and most Venerable Sovereignty
in the world In pointof honor itis an
act of cowardice, because it is the work
of physical force, oppressing the weak-
ness of right. As regards the sacred
feclings of the heart, it is a parricide;
because it is a crime ofthe most ungrate-
ful of sons against the Common Father

‘

gards the Church and God, itis a sacri-
lege; because itis tho violation of the
right of Jesns Christ Himself represent-
ed by His Vicar. It is the destruction
of that bulwark providentially contrived
to secure the independence of the Priest-
hood and the liberty of our souls. On
all these grounds we energetically and
solemnly condemn the iniquity commit-
ted at Rome, and we appeal from the ac-
complished fact to the indignation of all
true Catholics, to the conscience of all
honest men, to the judgment of bistory,
and, above all, to the justice of God
With these sentiments, Most Lloly Fath-
er, we beseech your Holiness to bless
us, your most faithful and most respect:
ful children,”

The Catholics of Germany have drawn
up a Protest full of heart and determina-
tion. On Wednesday last, a great pil-
grimage from different parts of the Fath-
erland, gathered round the shrine of the
English 8S. Boniface, at Palda, There
they poured forth their prayers for the
Holy Father, and there before Heaven
and earth they registered their determin-
ed Protest.

At Geneva, in like manner, a Protest
has been drawn up and signed, and so
also in Holland, Prom all parts of Italy
they are coming in—from Naples and
Sicily; from Venetia and Piedmont;
from Bologna and the Marches; from
Tuseany and Modena, ad other parts
of Italy. :

of the great Christian family. As re-

had for some time* considered it expe-
dient not to usurp. Yielding to the im-
| pulse of our fatherly love towards our
| beloved sons, the Cardinals of the Holy
; Roman Charch, and seeing in them co-
| operators in our supreme apostolate, we
| have this day resolved, in our mourning
Vand sorrow, to declare to them, as is re-
quired by the duty of our ministry, and
jas even the voice of our conscience
}urges us to do, the inmost fecling of our
soul, whieh makes us to detest and pub-
jlicly and openly to reprobate the state
jof things now existing. We, who, al-
though unworthy and undeserving, ex-
jereise the power of the Vicar of Our
‘Lord Christ on earth, and who. are the
_pastor over the whole House of Israel,
tind ourselves now practically wanting
that freedom which is absolately indis-
penshtle to us in order to govern the
Church of God, and to maintain its
(Nights; and we feclitis eur duty to
issue this protest, which we moreover
intend to have published, that it may be
known, as itis proper it should be, by
the whole Catholic world, And when
we assert that this freedom las been
ravished and taken from us, our adver:

}
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and this declaration are without founda-
tion. Indeed, any one who possesses
good sense will understand and confess
that having no longer that supreme and
free power, in virtue of which we enjoy
the right of our civil Principate in the
use of public means of conveyance, and
in the public cireulation of letters, and
being unable to trust the government
who has arrogated this power, we are
really deprived of the necessary and
speedy way, as well as the free faculty
of treating the affairs, which the Vicar
of Jesus Christ and the common Father
fof the Faithful, to whom his sons so nn-
merously come from all parts of the
i world, must treat and administer, This
[observation has again been confirmed by
a fact within the last few days. Persons
going out of our Palace of the Vatican
juve been searched by soldiers of the
; new government, who wanted to know
‘if they were not carrying something
under their clothes. A> complaint was
‘lodged against this proceeding, and the
“reply was thet it had been done by mis-
take, and an apology was offered for it.
But who can tell how easily errors of this
kind can le repeated, and lead to others ?
Moreover public education in this angust
city is threatened with a very serious
evil. Before long the academic year
will be opened at the university, This
establishment, which has heretofore en-
joyed exemplary tranquility and order,
although afout twelve hundred youn

men are there assembled, being the sole
place where so many Christian and hon-

corrupted; this establishmeit, either
on account of the false and erron-
eous doctrines which are now prevail-
ing, or on account of the animus of
those who have been chosen to propa-
gate them, must fall, as will be easily
anderstood, into a state very different
from whatit was. It was made known
that the laws in operation in Rome should
remain in their integrity and inviolabili-

preme Pontificate, should fall into hostile |

saries could not reply that this complaint |

est parents can send their children to be.
instructed, without the risk of being’

ty after the occupation, but in spite of
such declarations the parish registers
are taken away by foree and examined,
and itis not dificult to guess that each
information is therein searehed for as
will, doubtless, be useful to draw up
conscription lists, and for other ends
which are easily imagined. It must be
added that attacks and offences inspired
by the desire of vengeance and by party
spirit are left unpunished, and that a
similar impunity is assured to the auth-
ors of those shameful and unworthy out-
rages with which our faithfel bodies of
troops, who have so well deserved of
society and religion, have been loaded,
to the great grief of all honest people.
Lastly, ordinances and decrees concern:
ing church property have already show-
ed the tendency of the usurpers. There-
fore, against all those things already ac-
complished, as well as against those still
worse which are imminent, we intend to
protest in virtue of our Supreme Authori-
ty, as we now protest through the pre-
sent letters, by means of which we let
you know, beloved Son, and also each
of the Cardinals of the Iloly Roman
Church, a brief statement of those par-
ticular facts, moreover reserving to our
self to enter into the matter more fully
elsewhere.

‘* Meanwhile, let us fervently and in-|
cessantly pray Almighty God that Tle
will enlighten the minds of our enemies,
in order that they may cease loading
their souls with the more and more ov-
erwhelming weight of ecclesiastical cen-
sure, and provoking upon themselves
the terrible wrath of the living and all-
secing God, whose arm no body can
shun, We, on our part, pray the Di-
vine Majesty, with constancy and hn-
mility, imploring also the intercession of
the Immaculate Virgin and of the Bro-
ther Apostles Peter and Paul, and let
us do so with the holy confidence that
we shall obtain what we ask, becanse

tion, who invoke Ilim in sincerity.
Meanwhile, praying that Our Lord Je-
sus Christ may bestow peace and joy on
thee, beloved son, we, from the bottom
of the heart, give the Apostolis blessing.

‘Given at Rome, near St. Peter's, on
the 20th of September, the Feast of St.

of our Pontificate,
© Pree, FP. V, UX.’

the Lord helps those who are in tribuala-_

Michael the Archangel, in the 25th year

reached this country, ant we observed
also that, if he or any other native Chief
should really be found troublesome, the
the Northern Island, was amply saffi-
cient for the preservation of order. We
have now to record, as the experience
of the year brought np to the 4th of last
August, that this rebel, though still at
large, has never been anything but a
fugitive ; that ke has been tracked and
hunted with more or less success during
the whole time; that no further thought
is now given to his movements; and
that the visions of Maori wars have been
entirely dissolved, But this is the least
extraordinary part of the story.

The whole subject of last autaumn’s
agitation—the conduct of the Imperial
Government towards the Colony—has
been taken into consideration by the
Colonial Parliament, and after a vote of
censure, as we may call it, had been
flatly rejected in the Lower Louse, three
Resolutions were carried in the U =
The first of these stated that the inter-
ests of New Zealand would be best con-
sulted by her remaining an integral part
of the British Empire ; the second, that
there were not sufficient grounds for be-
lieving Englishmen to re the con-
trary ; the third, that, under the cireum-
stances, it was not advisable to prolong
the controversy, or to refer to past mis-
understandings. Nothing could be
more sensible than such views, or more
politic than such proceedings, and so en-
tirely do we approve the last Resolution
that we shall adopt it ourselves, and sav
nothing of ‘ past misunderstandings,’’
except this,--that the expression con-
veys the exact truth of the whole case,
It was in a misunderstanding that the
whole unpleasantness arcse,and nothing,
indeed, but a misunderstanding of the
most extraordinary kind could ever have
suggested the belief that any consider-
able or even appreciable number of Eng-
lishmen Hoth to see a separation be-
tween Great Britain and her Colonies,
No such wish was ever entertained.

The explanation of this better feeling
is as agrecable as the fact itself. Qur
Correspondent describes the change of
public opinion as a “sudden waking
from a hideous nightmare to a full con-
scionsness of power, security, com
onship, and light.’’ The Colonists un-
derstand at once their strength and

COLONIAL. ~
NEW ZEALAND

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attention of the public.
'bably not be needless, and will certainly
not be uninstruetive, to recall the subject
by which public attention was engrossed
in the autumn of 1869, At that period
we were all agitated, not to say alarmed,

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We are now in the autumn of 1870,
and it is needless to say what subject of
interes! and speculation is absorbing the
Bat itewill pro-

their opportunities, Instead of dream-
ing about insurgent Maoris, they are
planning railroads, waterworks, and
telegraphs, They are considering a
comprehensive scheme of colonization,
and are willing to apply a million ster-
ling to the encouragement of immigra-
tion. The resources of the Colony, as
they clearly discern, are almost infinite,
and need only development. One of
the most judicious measures before the
Legislature concerned the employment
of natives on public works in the North-
ern Island, This plan would have the:
double effect of providing the Maoris

by the aspect given to what was termed
the Colonial Question.
Leen more correct to speak of the New
Zealand Question, for that was the real

loss, representatives of other Colonies

ed themselves as sitting in permanence
for urgent purposes of discussion.
was intended to put a strong pressure
on the Government, and the alternative
presented to us was, in fact, nothing less
than that of radically reconstructing our
jrelations with the Colonies or forcing
‘them into secession and hostility, As
we have said, the true and only question
concerned the liability of this country to
undertake certain military duties on be-
half of the Colonists of New Zealand.
There was at that momenta regiment of
British soldiers still stationed in the
Colony—the sole remnant of a garrison
onee 10,000 strong. These troops were
under orders to return home, and it was
emphatically affirmed by those who had
certainly good means of information that
if those orders were carried ont it would
be impossible to calculate the conse-
quences to the Colony in the first place,
and to the United Kingdom in the end,
However, the Government persisted in
its resolution, and the troops were re-
moved. Within the last few days we
have published the actual results of this
policy as visible in the condition and
prospects of the Settlement just twelve
months afterwards, The contrast be-
tween the prediction and the event, the
alarm and the reality, is sometimes in-
credible, and may well remind us that
no evils cost so much trouble as chose
; which never happen.

The New Zealanders desired the re-
tention of a British regiment as an’ in-
dispensable symbol of Imperial power,
countenance, and support. They feared
the native tribes would look upon the

were withdrawn, and would be induced
to rise once more in universal and irre-
sistible rebellion. Te Kooti was the
Chief whoae intrignes and designs were
principally dreaded, and we were warn-
ed that more than one repetition of the
Cawnpore Massacre might be apprehend.
‘ed from his ferocity. At the same time
it was argued that the resentment of the
Colonists under theee sufferings would
be extreme, and that nobody could fare.
pon “* the dangers to a
eu * © were at pains of point-
ing out at the time that Te Kooti's w
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~~had been deranged and destroyed even

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It would have | the country itself more effectually anéer

origin of the disturbance ; but, neverthe-
were assembled in London, and announc- |

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Volonists as deserted if the red-cuata,

with peaceful occupation and bringing

‘the control of civilization and govern-
ment. If ever men were born soldiers,
ithe Maoris are these men, and yet even
they may occasionally have gone to war
/as much for subsistence as anything else.
It will be no slight advantage to turn
these skilful warriors into hardy labor-
‘ers; and sarely the genius which pre-
‘duced all those impregnable earthworks
‘in the shape of fortified “ pahs’”’ might
_be easily diverted to the more useful arts
of civil engineering.

| Itis intimated that, except for the pur-
pose of pong this particular work in
hand without delay, the Colonial Legis-
lature might actually decline, in its
altered mood, the pecuniary assistance
which the Imperial Government has re-
cently ofered. By way of evincing the
sympathy of this country with the Col-
onists, Ministers offered to guarantee @
colonial loan to the amount of £1,000-,
000 sterling : but the Colony itself, after
a calm review of its own resources, is
‘now proposing to raise, on its own un-
assisted credit, just four times that sum.
Naturally, therefore, the question is ask-
ed whether the aid which is not requiree
for the larger loan can be needed for thd
smaller, and so firm is now the belief of
the Colonists in their future prosperity,
that a trifling difference in dhe interest
annually payable — unworthy of
consideration, It is impossible, in short,
to conceive a more satisfactory report
of affairs than that now before us, and %,
as we are assured, nothing beyond the
maintenance of peace is needed to con-
vert all these anticipations into realities,
the end ought not to be doubtful. We
do not expect that Maori outbreaks will
at once become things of the past, bat
a judicious employment of friendly na-
tives, a with the - uisite dis.
play of colonial strength, will surely re-
wd the wars of rae np have to the di-
mensions of petty disturbances,